About that dungeon finder

Czekoludek

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

As most of you know, the recently completed Undaunted Celebration Event in ESO was plagued with Activity Finder issues. We had similar problems last year, but we thought they were resolved - unfortunately this year the demand once again overwhelmed this particular system, especially during prime-time hours. This led to a really frustrating experience for many of you, so we are going to address the situation by making Mysterious Reward Boxes available during the New Life festival, which starts soon.

This is the way it will work: A Mysterious Reward Box will be given as a bonus reward for completing your first New Life daily quest each day, per account. This means that the first New Life Festival daily you complete on your account will grant one New Life Reward Box, one Event Ticket, and one Mysterious Reward Box. This should help grant you the rewards that you couldn't get through the Activity Finder.

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

Well after almost half a year we have event that for most players is accessible only by dungeon finder. Finder is still broken, communication is still bad. @ZoS any comment on that?

oxygen_thief

get lost we are investigating

LonePirate

I've been in the queue for Normal Spindleclutch I (today's pledge) for 35 minutes and counting on PC EU. I'm in the queue as a DPS. Yeah, the dungeon finder is broken.

oxygen_thief

LonePirate wrote: »

I've been in the queue for Normal Spindleclutch I (today's pledge) for 35 minutes and counting on PC EU. I'm in the queue as a DPS. Yeah, the dungeon finder is broken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b99bWqCaCzI

Evergnar

Celebrating 5yrs of broken group finder.

ArenGesus

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

I think you have to read between the lines here - what he said is that they will never fix the dungeon group finder, but also that they won't have any events that rely directly on it. So, he's been true to his word.

Kel

ArenGesus wrote: »

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

I think you have to read between the lines here - what he said is that they will never fix the dungeon group finder, but also that they won't have any events that rely directly on it. So, he's been true to his word.

That's more than reading between the lines, that's gold medal winning mental gymnastics to even make that make sense.....😕

narcotic075

for 36min pressing "F" for applied group dungeon....
Yday recorded and reported as bug - still no answer. today same...
PART1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjjiJZO_N_4&feature=youtu.be
PART2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ7NFfve_9I&feature=youtu.be

same battleground:
https://youtu.be/TBlfB8lsfNo
https://youtu.be/Mtg8ALOMef0


If it will not be repaired, I will not pay more for this product because it does not meet my expectations.

Czekoludek

@ZOS_RichLambert may you explain to us why we should pay for broken product (that is broken for years now) kind ser? I tried to be forgiving, cuz I love this game but I must admit, even the most patient people have their limit.

narcotic075

Because I bought this game few years ago 3 or 4 and I played at start maybe for a month, so same like u (I love this game - I mean TES not O) so I left this game for a better time and when back 2months ago, first i bought ESO+ and doesnt know this bug...

ArenGesus

Kel wrote: »

ArenGesus wrote: »

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

I think you have to read between the lines here - what he said is that they will never fix the dungeon group finder, but also that they won't have any events that rely directly on it. So, he's been true to his word.

That's more than reading between the lines, that's gold medal winning mental gymnastics to even make that make sense.....😕

I mean, if you say so. But have you seen any evidence to the contrary? How long ago was this original comment made? Certainly long enough for them to have done something about it. They aren't fixing it dude, it's just the way it is. If they could come up with a crownstore token for finding a group, that would probably work flawlessly though.

Starlock

GF working fine for me...

SFxxKANExx

XBOX EU no problems with group finder.

Hymzir

35 minutes of pressing F to signify being ready for a dungeon...

35 minutes of "someone declined the invite"...

It took me about 3 minutes as a healer to start getting these invites. And then it was constant failure to form a group for over half an hour, with invites coming roughly 1 every 3 seconds, and sometimes in bursts of three. After hammering F for half an hour, I finally got into a delve...

This system is utterly borked.

Kel

ArenGesus wrote: »

Kel wrote: »

ArenGesus wrote: »

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

I think you have to read between the lines here - what he said is that they will never fix the dungeon group finder, but also that they won't have any events that rely directly on it. So, he's been true to his word.

That's more than reading between the lines, that's gold medal winning mental gymnastics to even make that make sense.....😕

I mean, if you say so. But have you seen any evidence to the contrary? How long ago was this original comment made? Certainly long enough for them to have done something about it. They aren't fixing it dude, it's just the way it is. If they could come up with a crownstore token for finding a group, that would probably work flawlessly though.

I think you're mistaken...

I'm not talking about what you said.
I meant the part about him thinking he kept his word was the mental gymnastics part.

DarkerDreams

Dungeon finder breaks every time there is a large load. It hasn't changed in all this time. Another event using it, another round of punching F for an hour

todokete

upgrade server pls

ArenGesus

Kel wrote: »

ArenGesus wrote: »

Kel wrote: »

ArenGesus wrote: »

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

I think you have to read between the lines here - what he said is that they will never fix the dungeon group finder, but also that they won't have any events that rely directly on it. So, he's been true to his word.

That's more than reading between the lines, that's gold medal winning mental gymnastics to even make that make sense.....😕

I mean, if you say so. But have you seen any evidence to the contrary? How long ago was this original comment made? Certainly long enough for them to have done something about it. They aren't fixing it dude, it's just the way it is. If they could come up with a crownstore token for finding a group, that would probably work flawlessly though.

I think you're mistaken...

I'm not talking about what you said.
I meant the part about him thinking he kept his word was the mental gymnastics part.

Oh, right - I don't actually believe that, was being snarky. They won't fix it ever was really my point.

illutian

You'd think they test this stuff.

Like, any good company, would have the ability to simulate server load.

MissBizz

The event doesn't depend on it. Even for those without regular groups can still group up in zone chat and port in manually.

They held their word. It's not 100% fixed, so the event doesn't require it. Kinda like how on the pts they are currently testing a new version of dungeon event that only requires killing the final boss. No dungeon finder.

DarkerDreams

Well yes, it doesn't strictly depend on it but come on, they know most people will use it. And as another note it hinders more than the event since the BG queue is also broken during these times. Took a ridiculous amount of time smashing the F key to get my daily done

delta_mystic

MissBizz wrote: »

The event doesn't depend on it. Even for those without regular groups can still group up in zone chat and port in manually.

They held their word. It's not 100% fixed, so the event doesn't require it. Kinda like how on the pts they are currently testing a new version of dungeon event that only requires killing the final boss. No dungeon finder.

finally "dungeon finder not required" confirmed by a trusted and knowledgeable source. Many thanks for this and the tons of helpful info in your guides!

the back and forth hearsay on ESO subreddit and the forums was driving me batty

AndyMac

Every. Dungeon. Event.

It’s getting ridiculous ZOS.

Luckily guildies were putting together pledge groups so I didn’t have to deal with it.

Arunei

DarkerDreams wrote: »

Well yes, it doesn't strictly depend on it but come on, they know most people will use it. And as another note it hinders more than the event since the BG queue is also broken during these times. Took a ridiculous amount of time smashing the F key to get my daily done

That doesn't matter. They said they wouldn't hold any events that require the LFG tool, and this event DOESN'T require it. You can easily go to the Undaunted Enclave of your Alliance and type "x role lfg for y pledge". A lot of people do this to begin with, they don't mess with the LFG tool but instead try to group from /zone.

Also, the issue doesn't seem to be quite as bad now as it was during the Undaunted event last year. Both the Pledges I ran today, the LFG tool filled the last spot in a 3-man group within 1-2 minutes. Obviously there still are issues since other people are having problems, but with any luck it won't get to the point it was last year where pretty much NO ONE was getting into groups at all.

FierceSam

Clearly it still can’t handle significant load. Equally clearly ZOS can’t easily fix it. Hence this event is providing rewards from quest givers and the Activity Finder isn’t required for this event as you can just form your own groups and port to a dungeon.

You might argue that Rich was being a bit disingenuous with his statement, but it remains true.

Much more of an issue for BGs, where you can’t play unless you use it.

oxygen_thief

MissBizz wrote: »

The event doesn't depend on it. Even for those without regular groups can still group up in zone chat and port in manually.

They held their word. It's not 100% fixed, so the event doesn't require it. Kinda like how on the pts they are currently testing a new version of dungeon event that only requires killing the final boss. No dungeon finder.

dont you find this is a pathetic excuse for a company like zos? its not a f2p game from noname studio. furthermore there is no other way to play battlegrounds

Kel

MissBizz wrote: »

The event doesn't depend on it. Even for those without regular groups can still group up in zone chat and port in manually.

They held their word. It's not 100% fixed, so the event doesn't require it. Kinda like how on the pts they are currently testing a new version of dungeon event that only requires killing the final boss. No dungeon finder.

Oh....I guess that makes the dungeon finder being broken and never fixed ok then....





/s

Czekoludek

MissBizz wrote: »

The event doesn't depend on it. Even for those without regular groups can still group up in zone chat and port in manually.

They held their word. It's not 100% fixed, so the event doesn't require it. Kinda like how on the pts they are currently testing a new version of dungeon event that only requires killing the final boss. No dungeon finder.

Like I said for a large amount of players dungeons finder is a necessary tool. Event not require it and that is good but it's not a fix, only workaround of the problem. I have guilds and many friends, for me it isn't the issue but that situation is a luxury that not everyone have. Half a year since Rich post and we still have broken tool and almost no communication about it. You think this situation is okay and we should just accept it?

DisgracefulMind

MissBizz wrote: »

The event doesn't depend on it. Even for those without regular groups can still group up in zone chat and port in manually.

They held their word. It's not 100% fixed, so the event doesn't require it. Kinda like how on the pts they are currently testing a new version of dungeon event that only requires killing the final boss. No dungeon finder.

Actually, it does. Not all of us have guilds of people to group up with on a whim when we're free. A lot of us have school, jobs, limited time, etc. Sure, me and my friend have been duoing the normal pledges, but if we wanted to find a full group for the vet ones or anything when we have the time (which is oceanic timeframe) it would literally take us hours on end to find a group unless we happened to have some friends staying up late for NA timeframe.

Remember, not everyone is in US time zones. I wish I could pound this into every NA players' head.

xSkullfox

Delpi

After 20 min...

"Someone declined the invitation..."

PRESS F

"Someone declined the invitation..."

PRESS F

"Someone declined the invitation..."

PRESS F

"Someone declined the invitation..."

PRESS F

"Someone declined the invitation..."

PRESS F

GO TO HELL!!!!!